Autism Anglia have gone all when They asked when I last had a child free evening and I explained that it was before DD was born (early 98). They have told me that they will be out to see me next week to try to organise some form of respite, and that they are disgusted with SS for doing nothing to help me. What is respite like? DD I think would just about be OK (despite never having spent a night away from me), but I am very concerned how it would work for DS2, who will not even settle at his dad's house, the ONLY place he will be left is at school (and that took an age). How did everyone else feel about respite? I KNOW that with my own disability, I can't keep pushing on without occasional breaks, as the stress and work involved with looking after 3 DC's, 2 of whom have SN, is putting me into 'overload' and making my seizures worse, but I don't know if someone who doesn't know my DD & DS2 could cope with their...idiosynwhatever (word is eluding me!)...err...unusalness (not a real word, but YKWIM). Would they go together or seperately? Lots of questions, can't articulate them all...reassurance/handholding please!!